AHA Presidential Address Bibliography
James M. McPherson, 2003
War on the Waters: The Union & Confederate Navies, 1861–1865. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Abraham Lincoln. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief. New York: Penguin, 2008.
This Mighty Scourge. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg. 1st ed. New York: Crown Journeys, 2003.
The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
The Boys in Blue and Gray. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2002.
Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Encyclopedia of Civil War Biographies. Editor. 3 vols. Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference, 2000.
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, by Ulysses S. Grant. Introduction and Notes. New York: Penguin Books, 1999.
Is Blood Thicker than Water? Crises of Nationalism in the Modern World. Toronto: Vintage Canada, 1998.
For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
The American Heritage New History of the Civil War. Edited and with a new introduction. New York: Viking, 1996.
“We Cannot Escape History”: Lincoln and the Last Best Hope of Earth. Editor. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995.
The Atlas of the Civil War. Editor. New York: Macmillan, 1994.
What They Fought For, 1861–65. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994.
“American Victory, American Defeat.” In Why the Confederacy Lost, edited by Gabor S. Boritt. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
American Political Leaders: From Colonial Times to the Present. Consulting Editor. By Steven G. O’Brien. Editor Paula McGuire. Consulting Editor Gary Gerstle. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1991.
Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Battle Chronicles of the Civil War. Editor. 6 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1989.
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
How Lincoln Won the War with metaphors. Fort Wayne, IN.: Louis A. Warren Lincoln Library and Museum, 1985.
Lincoln and the Strategy of Unconditional Surrender. Gettysburg, PA: Gettysburg College, 1984.
Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction. 1st ed. New York: Knopf, 1982.
Region, Race, and Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of C. Vann Woodward, edited with by J. Morgan Kousser. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
The Abolitionist Legacy: From Reconstruction to the NAACP. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1975.
Blacks in America: Bibliographical Essays. 1st ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971.
Marching toward Freedom: The Negro in the Civil War, 1861–1865. New York: Knopf, 1968.
The Negro’s Civil War: How American Negroes Felt and Acted during the War for the Union. New York: Pantheon Books, 1965.
The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964.
Last Updated: February 23, 2013
